Those Who Cause Pain
Why do some so well employ
All the ways to banish joy?
Why must we, who try to care
With these people, evil share.
Why do they give to us such pain
What do they think that they will gain?
By hating more, and trusting not
Do they think this is what we've sought?
The pain that they are sharing thus
Is not intended to help us.
What darkness in their hearts must grow
What bitter faces they must show.
The pain they are so quick to give
Will not help us to love, or live
The way that God intends us to:
To live our lives to love and grow.
We must not let those who, with hate
Will try to alter our true state,
To halt our love, to cease the way
We try to care and share each day.
For they, you see, will always be
Void of love, and will not see
The way that you and I will grow.
They cannot love, they cannot show
To others what, to you and I
Is really love, and not a lie.
Thus, for them, with hearts so black
The joy of love they'll always lack.
The peace that comes from deep within
Our hearts, will not for them begin
To ease their pain, to help them see
Such wondrous love as you've brought me.
So hate them not, though it be true
They'll try to harm both me and you.
Their evil ways, their blackened souls
Will not deter us from our goals.
For you and I, together, know
We?ll never let the pain they sow
Harm our love, or make us hate.
The love we share will not abate.
We'll try to love those who cause pain
And try to help them love again.
Dave C. Moore
C: Pixie~Elf Productions
March/2000
